Railway trackwork
Penrhyn Quarries Ltd
Category
Technological items
Date
Unknown
Materials
Steel, wrought and cast iron, wood and slate.
Measurements
220 x 7500 mm; 30000 mm (Length)
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Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd
NT 1700773
Summary
Railway trackwork. A layout of 1ft 10 3/4in (578mm) gauge trackwork from the Penrhyn Quarry railway, comprising sections of straight and curved track, points and a diamond crossing. The layout includes flat-bottomed rails spiked to wooden sleepers, bullhead rails carried on cast-iron chaired sleepers with wooden keys, and simple circular section rails dropped into cast-iron sleepers at each end of the rail. There are also two buffer stops, a point lever with rodding, and a quantity of loose rails. The whole is ballasted with slate chippings and confined within wooden edging boards.
Makers and roles
Penrhyn Quarries Ltd, owner